An association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.
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Of or resembling the traditions of the Ivy League.
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A group of colleges in the NE U.S. forming a league for intercollegiate sports.
So called because of the ivy-covered older college buildings
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Ivy-league Sentence Examples
An Ivy League professor detailed the workings of the brain while another discussed time, with both concluding it was absolutely impossible.
She is the former provost of Yale, part of the US Ivy League market-based system.
There is a myriad of pretentious students at this Ivy League school.
After eight years of shopping, attending an Ivy League school to become an Epidemiologist and working as a budding politician, she was completely broke.
It wasn't enough for Natalie Portman to be a talented actress, and in 1999, she began attending Ivy League school Harvard University.